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   Phonetics 1 - Exercise 7

1    Give the symbol for the following consonants.
        You may use the SAMPA keyboard symbols given in Keywords and symbols .

bilabial fortis plosive  
dental lenis fricative  
alveolar fortis fricative  
alveolar lenis fricative  
velar lenis plosive  
postalveolar lenis affricate
postalveolar fortis fricative
labiodental fortis fricative

2    Give the symbol for the underlined plosive (stop) in the following words:

rope
robe
super
supper
robber
labour
lady
ladder
bigger
tiger
tick
took

3    Give the symbol for the underlined fricatives in the following words:

life
live (adjective)
live (verb
bathe
either
ether
both
with
this
think
half
base
phase
face
treasure
nation
zinc

4  Give the ENDINGS of the following words: -s, -'s, -s', or -es. You should write one of the following:

, , or (remember that can also stand for )
(plain keyboard symbols are s, z, Iz)

Example: shoe - you write "shoes z"

love
make
fight
tree
rock
bus
maid
watch
village
run
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